The re-acquaintance of klezmer, Eastern European Jewish modes and rhythms, with American jazz is currently at its height. Initially, Jewish immigrant musicians arriving during the late 1800s and early ...

In a few weeks, C. Calloway Brooks, eldest grandson of the great Cab Calloway, will join the Klezmer Conservatory Band (KCB) as part of a “Klezmer Meets Swing” concert at the Regent Theater in ...

PITTSFIELD — When conductor and accordion player Aaron Kula founded the Klezmer Company Jazz Orchestra in Florida back in 1997, he counted Berkshire clarinetist Paul Green among his first ...

Metropolitan Klezmer, founded in 1994, is the collaborative adventure of seven exceptional New York-based musicians creating inspired interpretations and original compositions around a panorama of ...

Tzadik Records’ Radical Jewish Culture releases often split the difference between jazz and klezmer. Both genres drag long canonical histories behind them like the train on a wedding dress. Both are ...

The Playboy Jazz Festival kicked off its annual series of free community concerts Sunday afternoon with performances by the Hollywood Klezmer Jazz Quintet and the Bobby Rodriguez Salsa Orchestra at ...

Virtuoso jazz and classical clarinetist Don Byron was in the Klezmer Conservatory Band from 1981 to 1987. He recalled when he first heard “Tanz” in 1981, when his roommate, KCB bassist Jim Guttman, ...

In a musical sense, Bay Area quartet Davka re-creates the deeds ascribed in legend to the mystic Jewish masters of medieval Europe, who, through incantations gleaned from the ancient Hebrew texts, ...

This was to be a blog entry on the New Orleans Klezmer All-Stars at New Orleans Jazz Fest. It still will be. But on my way to the Lagniappe Stage, I decided to sit for a few minutes at Economy Hall to ...

The Jazz at Bard series will present a jazz and klezmer weekend featuring a concert at 8 p.m. Saturday by Naftule’s Dream, an improvisational rock, jazz-klezmer band, and at 1 p.m. Sunday by the ...

As I type this blog, Bon Jovi and Kings of Leon are playing rock music on either end of the Fair Grounds at Jazz Fest. Rock music is great. You bob in place. Clap your hands. Wiggle your hips. But ...

Sometimes the most influential musicians are the ones who don't call much attention to themselves. Take Berkeley clarinetist Ben Goldberg, who for the past two decades has quietly inspired some of the ...